In Improvising Screenplays, improvisational actor Brett Wean shares how the concepts of improvisation can be applied to the work — and play — of writing your script. There are a few general, arbitrary-sounding, scene types that actors are told to avoid when first learning improv. Specifically, novice improvisers are warned to stay away from:...

In Improvising Screenplays, improvisational actor Brett Wean shares how the concepts of improvisation can be applied to the work — and play — of writing your script. Let’s talk about Joseph Campbell for a minute. Old. Dead, actually. (RIP.) Cute New England accent. Probably lusted after by many a female student for being super...

In Improvising Screenplays, improvisational actor Brett Wean shares how the concepts of improvisation can be applied to the work — and play — of writing your script. I have a confession to make. I haven’t seen Frozen, and I have no idea what that “Let It Go” song is about. If you forced me...

In Improvising Screenplays, improvisational actor Brett Wean shares how the concepts of improvisation can be applied to the work — and play — of writing your script. There’s a longstanding rule — guideline, really — that improvisational actors use to help them create scenes together on stage: whenever they feel themselves about to ask...